AIX

I completely agree. Do we not have a contract with an engineering company that everything is guarenteed cleaned/destroyed by them anyway? I don't know.

Any new disk we recieve from the engineers may actually be someone else's, but we always run the formatting utilities through to prove we have a good disk anyway.

If we didn't and was able to find something, I wouldn't know how to go about "selling" it anyway. No point to me, just give me the hardware I neeed and I will just use it.

The absolute most secure way to wipe data off a disk is to run a drill through it two or three times. The data will be 100% unrecoverable.

Apparently, data can still be recovered from media fragments over 0.5 cm, hence why we shred to below this size.

I would expect that you have to quantify what risk the data is and then consider the media before deciding how safe you want to be. Most of our data is:-.... yet, we still shred these disks if any are replaced because we handle personal and financial data. Paranoia? Possibly. Of course this could be fuelled by the manufacturers of the shredders, if one was to be cynical



Robin